Hi Andreas, Thanks for the prompt reply.
In this scenario, svn status does not show anything. Also, the file does not get commited when I issue an 'svn commit'. Is there a reason for that? Thank you, Sasikala On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Andreas Stieger <andreas.stie...@gmx.de> wrote: > Greetings, > > On 10/19/2017 11:41 AM, Sasikala Kottegoda wrote: > > A file named a.txt exists inside a folder in the working copy, which > > has been copied from somewhere else > > > > * cCopy and replace a.txt with the same file/or modify it by issuing > > the 'touch' command > > * Do an svn status, it shows nothing > > * Do an svn info on the file and 'Last Changed Date' shows the same > > as the previous file. It does not get modified even though the > > file was newly copied. > > * But the from java files API, the file is shown with a different > > modified date > > > > Why do we not modify the 'Last Changed Date' when the file was newly > > copied/touched? > > Last Changed Date refers to the last change of the version item in the > repository that the working copy knows about. It does not relate or > account for local file system changes, neither in identity (inode), > timestamps (touch) nor content - because this is a local change that > does not change the versioned item until commit. > > Andreas > -- Sasikala Kottegoda *Senior Software Engineer* WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com/ lean. enterprise. middleware Mobile: +94 774835928 [image: https://wso2.com/signature] <https://wso2.com/signature>
